skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was let go from my last job. Also no CS degree. Had no LinkedIn either (deleted years ago). Had to create a resume from scratch. The only thing I had was about a decade of experience.

I started by creating a resume and LinkedIn and aggressively optimized both as much as possible. Using a ATS checker I found online, I got a score of 96 for my resume after numerous changes (29 changes after a few weeks).

I started applying aggressively (and tracking) immediately after being let go. I’m pretty sure early rejections were because my resume was awful.

After nearly 2 months, 588 applications, with an average 10% response rate within an average of 10 days per response, I had 16 move to interview stages and 2 final offers. I accepted one of them (it checked all my boxes for what I wanted so didn’t have to compromise). I had 3 referrals but none of those materialized to interviews or offers. I did not work with any recruiters.

Market is bad, no doubt about that. I can’t speak to the experience of others but I’m convinced my response rate is good enough and it’s a numbers game.

This happened earlier this year.

Some stats for those who think it may influence my results:

40s Asian male. US Citizen. So no VISA needed and not white and don’t check any DEI boxes.

This is for Senior SWE IC role.
> expertexchange

This reminded me that, rather hilariously, it used to be called expertsexchange.com before adding a dash (experts-exchange.com).
Treat AI as a human behind an API
Yeah bandcamp is closer to GOG, because it's DRM free, and you can get all your games in offline installer format if you so desire.
The housing crisis is a bit more complicated than that particular situation you're describing though. Some very 'progressive' places are full of raging NIMBYism that prevents anything like enough housing from being built.
Node.js can now run TypeScript directly
So for example:

node --experimental-strip-types ./src/example.ts

It will now be:

node ./src/example.ts

Some good reads:

- https://nodejs.org/en/learn/typescript/run-natively

- https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#--experimental-strip-types
There is no "typical" search engine use case. The fallacy that there is such a thing is a big part of the problem. The enshittification and decline of the digital window to the internet is so complete that even basic information management tools like browser bookmarks are deprecated: people will "search" even for sites they use repeatedly.

Minimally there needs to be a transparent split between commercial queries (searching to buy something) and knowledge / abstract queries (searching to learn something).

Users should be context aware (ideally using completely separate tools) of when they are simply accessing a pay-to-play online product catalog versus when they are querying what is effectively a decentralized wikipedia.

Commingling the commercial with the factual was always going to be a dead-end.
So you want the answer to when the taco stand opens to be quick and wrong?

That's possibly the biggest waste of my time you could think of, because I'm probably going to have to spend a half-hour and a trip out of the house finding out that the answer was wrong. I'd rather get the answer in 5 minutes and for it to always be right. Dying in an accident coming back from a taco stand AI didn't know closed 6 months ago would be the worst death.
> - Moving all your liked songs and playlists over is annoying

I've switched music streaming services a few times and this is always a pain, no matter which streaming service. I really really wish there were some universal export/import format that all these services shared to make switching easier (but I understand that might not be in their interest).
Add XFT support and this language would be cool to have a fast RAD development with easy crosscompilation.
It want stay long. You are now in the pre ad phase.
As soon as the ads are integrated the answers will become worse.
Same with Brave search. The AI answer is often good enough for me to not need to go further. I’m with you, except I don’t use Google.
These are good points. You've made me feel a bit better about how much is really being wasted.
You forgot LA Times oligarch, Patrick Soon-Shiong.
I wonder if hitting an engine on an airliner is kind of a best-case scenario for the plane. Since there are always at least two engines and control surfaces on the other wing. Still extremely Not Good obviously.
I have trusted in the past, and verified that the recruiter does not in fact do their job.
I get your point wasn't this specific example, it's perhaps not a very good example of being dangerous: Getting that much caffeine into your bloodstream takes quite a commitment, and someone who knows the term LD50 is perhaps not very likely to think it indicates what is safe to consume. It's also not something you're likely to do accidentally because you've looked it up online and decided to test it.

In the most concentrated form in typical commercial caffeine tablets, it's half to one fistful. In high-caffeine pre-workout supplements, it's still a quantity that you'd find almost impossible to get down and keep down... E.g. a large tumbler full of powder of mine with just enough water to make it a thick slurry you'd likely vomit up long before much would make it into your bloodstream...

I'm not saying it's impossible to overdose on caffeinated drinks, because some do, and you can run into health problems before that, but I don't think that error is likely to be very high on the list of dangerous advice.
Ya, but isn’t that complete BS? I lived in Vicksburg MS, and while housing is definitely cheap, it’s not free, and you can’t really survive there if you can’t make any money at all. So you either die or move.
Libraries are booming but as gathering spots and place for people to get wifi to ... consume the web. Books remain but the selection is quite sparse.

And journalism has been gutted, more gutted than is obvious. Especially, with mainstream journalists having few "feet on the ground" a lot can sneak by (what happened in East Palestine, for example, can be found on Youtube's Status Coup new but not the mainstream).
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss artificial intelligence in 2005
The biggest issue for me was filtering through software engineer job listings, since I wouldn't be interested or qualified for listings using various tech stacks.

I made a Chrome extension for LinkedIn that would filter out listings to exclude certain keywords, e.g. "Rust" or "Java" and find only listings that applied to me. From there I could manually apply and track my job application status. This saved much more time. I had a few macros to paste information which sped up the process.
Will OpenAI eventually deliver ads along with responses?

“Before getting a response, a word from our sponsors:” type thing?
This is the AI I am excited for. Data and execution local to my machine. I think Intel is betting on this with the copilot included processors. I hope ollama or other local AI services will be able to utilize these co-processors soon.
Maintenance cost and fuel costs are considerably lower for trains, why would they cost the same amount?
I don’t like ‘em. Bah.

But then again I’m old now and have always been a bit too “trad” for even my own liking.

If they prove popular, through, who am I to judge?
> you’ve gone and made rental housing economically unviable

no, there are different slices here, tons of rentals are hyper-profitable now(acquired on much cheaper and with lower interest rates), they will still exist.

> you haven’t really made it feasible for a 19 year old working at McDonalds, or some guy stuck in a crap job in Mississippi

the point is that there will be cheap inventory for them too. Once real estate stopped being attractive investment vehicle, there will be huge outflow of capital which will crash prices, and this will actually put huge pressure on rental prices too.
it's number's game anyway on who gets the initial interviews

hate the game playa ;)
Scrolling down to the bottom of this post brought up the "please subscribe!" nag screen and also immediately sent me back to the top of the page. The modal has poor contrast on the close button, so it was just confusing.

If you must nag for subscriptions, you might want to try and find a way that does it without interfering with page interactivity.
Customer data from 800k electric cars and owners exposed online
+1 my visio powers this as well
It also powers lots of stuff via usb

Maybe because it’s NOT a smart tv and doesn’t have some crazy android chip SoC to constantly power. I mean obviously you can make a power supply that could do both - or neither. But it likely comes down to price for the manufacturer of the tv
Happy to provide citations, but I think more explanation is in order. The stuff we currently make from metals and petroleum are not optimal, they are just whatever we could easily make from those things we could find historically.

With precise, programmable control over biochemistry, we can make almost any organic carbon based molecule from almost any other carbon source- but obviously not things like metals. However, I posit we will be able to make things with drastically superior performance that fills all of the same use cases. Consider for example that Dyneema - which is just simple straight saturated carbon chains- is already 15x the strength of steel on a weight basis. I'm talking about being able to predict the properties of a molecule ahead of time, and then make something with exactly the properties we want.

It would be quite shortsighted to make a more environmentally friendly way of making the exact same stuff when those things were limited by constraints that no longer apply and we have the potential for drastically superior materials (stronger, more durable, lower toxicity, more recyclable, etc.) for a specific problem- but it depends on what specific problem you are addressing.
Meals take a big bite out of Japanese household budgets
I think you are going after something that is more an element of craftsmanship than engineering, and I agree it is a big part of real world software development. And, not everyone practices it the same way! It's more of a gestalt perception and thinking process, and that instinctual aspect is colored by culture and aesthetics.

In my career, I've always felt uncomfortable with people conflating software development with engineering. I think software has other humans as the audience more so than traditional engineered products. Partly this may be the complexity of software systems, but partly it is how software gets modified and reused. There isn't the same distinction between the design and the product as in other domains.

Other domains have instances of a design and often the design is tweaked and customized for each instance for larger, complex products. And, there is a limited service life during which that instance undergoes maintenance, possible refurbishing, etc. Software gets reused and reformed in ways that would make traditional engineers panic at all the uncertainties. E.g. they would rather scrap and rebuild, and rely on specialists to figure out how to safely recycle basic materials. They don't just add more and more complexity to an old building, bridge, airplane, etc.
They aren't being undermined and dismantled, they're dying of the same cancer search is, and one they contracted voluntarily: advertising.
Note especially that in many languages "censor" and "censure" are the same word.
It's been well know that spelling and grammatical errors are a good steganography channel, however I don't think this is what going on in The Fudged Article here.
From the bbc program summary:

In Our Time

Artificial Intelligence

Released On: 08 Dec 2005

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss artificial intelligence. Can machines think? It was a question posed by the mathematician and Bletchley Park code breaker Alan Turing and it is a question still being asked today. What is the difference between men and machines and what does it mean to be human?

And if we can answer that question, is it possible to build a computer that can imitate the human mind? There are those who have always had robust answers to the questions that those who seek to create artificial intelligence have posed.

In 1949 the eminent neurosurgeon, Professor Geoffrey Jefferson argued that the mechanical mind could never rival a human intelligence because it could never be conscious of what it did: "Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt", he declared "and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain - that is, not only write it but know that it had written it."

Yet the quest rolled on for machines that were bigger and better at processing symbols and calculating infinite permutations.

Who were the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and what drove them to imitate the operations of the human mind? Is intelligence the defining characteristic of humanity?

And how has the quest for artificial intelligence been driven by warfare and conflict in the twentieth century?

With Jon Agar, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge; Alison Adam, Professor of Information Systems, Salford University; Igor Aleksander, Professor of Neural Systems Engineering at Imperial College, University of London.
You mean, like… Intel these past few years?
h1bdata.info, check Elon's companies.

X Corp pays 150k for swe i in san francisco.

I'd be happy with the starting salary, but not there.
A woman in a homeless camp north of Seattle died and her adult son’s spine was crushed last month when a large tree fell their tent during a windstorm.

https://komonews.com/news/local/lynnwood-woman-bomb-cyclone-...

The local graffiti says that ACAB includes Batman. I’m the son of a cop and grew up around cops. It’s probably more accurate to say TVMOCAB. The vast majority, probably around 90%, of cops are bastards, but there are a few Boy Scouts mixed in. It’s certainly inline with my interaction with cops over he past ~50 years. How could it be otherwise, in accordance with Sturgeon’s law?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
Are you suggesting that 2000d Google codebase would do a decent job against today's SEO?
Thinking that "in person" will stop or prevent cheating is laughable.

For god-sakes, the chess world is freaking out over an ANAL BEADS cheating scandal! https://kotaku.com/chess-champion-anal-bead-magnus-carlsen-h...

https://github.com/RonSijm/ButtFish

A candidate who wants that job will figure out some way to have ChatGPT help them in a way you can't detect, even if it also has an impact on their ass health.
You are mistaken. User uploads, unofficial remixes, mixtapes, anime music videos, entire video game soundtrack rips, etc. All in the YouTube Music app.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc-MRIbtyP8&si=m5A0o6QLomb...

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=bPtF-hvruDQ&si=iK5SGGZMup2...

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tMWvoJjflfc&si=Uqz_a-dzl4q...

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3dBLZXt18U0&si=ExNqN60VG6e...

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pPpKjA-FY&si=jlVoeBhuXGH...

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xddHYuXEXik&si=k0tWdhMzv-H...

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oq5BS8E5D0&si=u6OEMhWODWZ...

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YQRXJVF8lic&si=JR6tiZVBLR_...

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oKD-MVfC9Ag&si=tRHXKwDzB7Q...

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=u8GCIBWztoY&si=z9JRzBBZp-6...
Who do you think creates all the stock value for social media companies? Do you think such users should be equally outraged that their social media site has billions in market capitalization but paid them $0?
My layperson understanding was that all of the surface gold (i.e. available to humans, not in earth's core) was delivered here via comets/asteroids.

The explanation I received was that the densest atoms (e.g. gold) migrated into the core over billions of years (because: gravity; gold is twice as dense as lead).
Every job I've applied to has involved me researching the company, deciding whether I understood it, was right for the role, and wanted to work for them, and then tailoring my resume and cover letter to what that role needed. In my life, I've maybe sent 25 applications, gotten 6-7 interviews, and been hired 4 times. Pretty good batting average, and I'm not by any means especially qualified or accomplished. For me, automated spam has not been the answer, laser targeting has been.
The problem is that Ukraine has been trying to join NATO since the early 2000s. The answer was always the same: "we'll consider it". This wasn't going to change in 2014, when Ukraine had no working government and Russia invaded.
I don't see how things not being considered legitimate by the West currently stops anyone but the West and even that only a little bit, with exception of US that does whatever it pleases all the time.
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> AlphaGo had an artificial neural network that was specifically trained in best moves and winning percentages. An LLM trained on text has some data on what constitutes winning at go, but internally doesn't have a ANN specifically for the game of go.

This isn't addressing what the original commenter was referring to.
As I imply below we should also be able to biosynth silicon-based stuff :)

FWIW I doubt we understand biology enough today to make biomanufacturing more efficient than conventional industrial processes, see the non sequitur of fungi based meat substitutes.

However, in the meantime, we can defo learn from bio to improve or even revolutionize our processes.

The other thing is: CO2 capture is also going to be far less feasible than increasing albedo, that's where we should focus our short term imagination. Don't lose hope for albedo increase to be
biotech based, in the short term, though!

(Eat meat that shit little yet fart more like humans)
No need.

https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/tree/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b...
A few points:

- German and other NW European cultures share the family atomization characteristic of Anglo-Americans

- Anglo as a term stems from England. England is named for the Angles, a Scandinavian/Germanic tribe that invaded Britain a long time ago. The term Anglo-American reflects the seminal English influence on American culture.

- The English and their descendant culture, America, basically invented the modern economic world and it predates WWII by a long time.

The idea that WWII is why America is on top is a-historical.
It's kind of helpful to think of the world in percentages, rather than "1 or 0, black or white".

Some people with drug problems are able to hold down some minimum wage work or part time jobs or something that brings in money.

In Mississippi, that might be enough to keep you housed. In Los Angeles, it's not.

Also you're more likely to be able to stay with a friend or relative with some extra space if housing isn't so tight:

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-housing-shortages-cause...
High speed rail in Europe (mainly France) runs at an average speed of 270km/h (167mph), usually city centre to city centre. It is often more convenient than flying, given check-in times and airport distance from cities. It’s certainly quicker than driving.
obviously Russia's government, not Russia...everybody is thinking on reparation and insurance claims
Bad for society. Lots of old people and few children and young people makes for a pretty fucked up social situation.
In the beginning they were not, but it is changing. With Netflix price hikes (about +40% in 10 years, inflation adjusted), competing streaming platforms, each with their own exclusives, and crackdowns on shared accounts, "pausing" is becoming more and more common.

People don't need more than one streaming platform for "background noise", and switching to the one with the most popular shows of the month makes a lot of economic sense. At the end of the year, it can easily save you hundreds of dollars, and the bigger the amount, the more people are going to do the maths.

Maybe an annual Netflix subscription is planned.
Newspapers and other media have always had a political slant. But the more respected media have maintained rough factual accuracy because it enhances their impact and so their political slant.

What's happened is that the income of media outlets has declined to the point that most can't get factual accuracy even if they want it.
>> COLD towns without major homeless shelter capabilities

"without major homeless shelter capabilities" is a key part of my original claim. Every city you listed is a major city that has the infrastructure and resources to shelter homeless populations during major cold events. Plenty of Northern CITIES have those capabilities. but WV doesn't have any major cities and lacks cities with the capabilities to shelter homeless individuals during major cold events.
Copy Iowa, not Singapore. Kick the knowledge industries (tech, finance, law, media) out of the state. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.
Relevant:

Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42492508 - Dec 2024 (625 comments)
I'm probably going to be unpopular, but as a non-American, I actually find that hiring non-American is a good trend, especially if you want to sell all around the world. I don't have an opinion on H1-B specifically.
Imagine what a fuss they would have made if he wasn't wearing pants.

You just can't win...
Perhaps if he was able to use some kind of force-directed 3-D algorithm, instead of a 2-D one, they might resemble something other than leaves, which could be interesting.
Thanks for the link. I am sure I listen to this ping ago. It will be interesting to re-play the episode
It’s my understanding that most hiring managers have a similar AI-assisted filtering tools. So there are humans in either side, it’s just a bunch of garbage in between
Absolutely, and they are pretty much all equal participants in the creation of the sound you are hearing. It's just one worker (the headline artist) who gets all the attention.
I really like the you deliver business open source apps and we would be interested in hosting tracardi but my question would be how do you keep the apps updated.
Thanks for responding.

> The amount of rubbish I see published with editorial "standards" is enormous (in my own field and others).

Every human institution is flawed; that doesn't mean the alternative institution, or no institution at all, is better.

What I'm really wondering is, how can you keep up efficiently? And how do you have more objective standards? The system you describe seems very prone to popularity and political contests, and the ubiquitous Internet mob actions. Critiques by others aren't really useful signals unless you critique the critiques carefully - and who has time?

I'm not saying you have no answer, I'm just trying to understand how it works.
Until recently (not sure about the current status), NYC had a "right to shelter" so that people could have a place to stay for the night. This meant that they still had a lot of homelessness, but it wasn't nearly as visible as, say, San Francisco.